Showing posts with label antidepressants and placebo effect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antidepressants and placebo effect. Show all posts
Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception
by Dr. Mercola
'It has long been believed that the placebo effect works only because people believe they are taking a real drug. But a new study casts doubt on this assumption. Placebos may work even when they are administered without deception.
Even though placebos contain no active ingredients, patients often respond to them. In fact, many American physicians -- perhaps as many as 50 percent -- secretly give placebos to their patients.
Since this practice is ethically questionable, a group of researchers decided to explore whether or not the power of placebos can be used without the secrecy.'
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Serotonin as Causal Factor in Depression Theory - PROVEN WRONG - More DANGEROUS Junk Science Exposed
More Big Pharma Junk Science'Antidepressants of the Prozac type are no better than a placebo, a leading psychologist has claimed. According to Irving Kirsch, the evidence is overwhelming that there is no link between depression and serotonin, the brain chemical that such drugs are supposed to affect.'
Professor Kirsch said. “The idea that the neurotransmitter serotonin is a causal factor in depression is wrong.”
“Although the chemical-imbalance theory is often presented as if it were fact, it is actually a controversial hypothesis,” he said. “This is about as close as a theory gets in science to being disproven by the evidence.”
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